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What’s happening?

Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , , , , on November 9, 2015 | 2 Comments »

The beginning of COP 21, the UN Conference on Climate Change, is three weeks away. So what else is happening, you ask? 1) The Campaign Against Climate Change‘s Time to Act! campaign, 350.org, Reclaim Power, and various other formations are preparing actions around the world on the eve of the summit (November 28-29) and a huge demonstration in Paris […]

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“Lest you think we’re a faceless entity…”

Posted in Media ecology, tagged , , , on March 25, 2014 | 2 Comments »

This ad is making the rounds, but in case you haven’t seen it yet, here it is. It is brilliant.     As Jeff Beer puts it, the stock video footage firm Dissolve illustrates the “marketing strategy equivalent of paint-by-numbers” by putting its own goods to the words of Kendra Eash‘s brilliant McSweeney’s piece.

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The Occupation

Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged , , , , , , on October 19, 2011 | 5 Comments »

The metaphor of “occupation” strikes me as a provocative one not only for what the activists in Manhattan and elsewhere are doing, but for what they are struggling against. Some, and perhaps many, of these are people without traditional “occupations,” so they are occupying themselves by re-occupying the public spaces that have been occupied for […]

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